The Bacon (Ruby Lake) occurrence is exposed along along Highway 101, on the east side of Ruby Lake of the Sechelt Peninsula.
Regionally, the area is underlain by a series of northwest-trending volcanic and sedimentary rocks comprised of basaltic volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen and Quatsino formations (Vancouver Group); argillite, greywacke, wacke and conglomerate turbidites of the Lower to Middle Jurassic Bowen Island Group and volcanic and marine sedimentary rocks of the Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group, which form roof pendants that have been intruded by diorite and quartz diorite of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex.
The Bacon occurrence is hosted in a roof pendant of mafic flows, pyroclastics, chert and epidote skarn of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) engulfed in Upper Jurassic diorite and quartz diorite within the Jurassic-Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex. Bedding strikes 040 degrees and dips 75 degrees northwest. Mineralization is exposed, intermittently, for approximately 250 metres along the highway.
Pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite occur as fracture-infillings along conjugate joints and as blebs in the roof pendant rocks. A shear zone in the vicinity is reported to contain pyrite and molybdenite.
In 1983, two grab samples (No. 7 and 8) assayed 0.21 and 0.55 per cent copper with 3.4 and 5.5 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 11333).
Work History
In 1974, Nordic Management conducted a soil sampling program on the area immediately east and surrounding Klein Lake as the Estella claims.
In 1983, Chalice Mining Inc. conducted a program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and a 3.0 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the area as the Bacon and Wally claim groups. The following year, a rock and soil sampling program was conducted on the Bacon and Wally claim groups.
In 1990, Blue Chip Resources Inc. completed a program of geological mapping, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling and a 4.0 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic (VLF) and magnetic survey to the east of the occurrence on the Chalice 1, Bacon 2 and HD claims of the Egmont property. In 1991, Blue Chip Resources Inc. conducted a program of geological mapping and a 6.5 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic (VLF) and magnetic survey on the area to the east as the Bacon 2, HD and Wally 2 claims of the Egmont property.
